Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to introduce this Mainland red cedar baritone to the fold. It's a second, but the ding on the bottom back is so minuscule that I nearly missed it the first time I looked it over. Solid red cedar top, solid rosewood back and sides.
It's my first bari. I learned on a soprano, and graduated myself to concert at the beginning of last year, which is definitely more comfortable to play. When I tried a tenor, I felt it was too much of a compromise in sound, and I had gotten so used to concert and soprano scale that it just felt weird to me. So I was scared of the baritone, until the 2012 year of the baritone thread that either Mike at Mainland or Mike at Uke Republic started, and it got me to thinking about a deeper, mellower, fuller sound, and then Eugene Ukulele got two (!), and raved, and so then, I was on a mission.
I knew I'd have to "trade in" so I sold my Mainland red cedar soprano, which was definitely my most beautiful uke, and thought I'd just get its bigger cousin, and man am I glad I did. So, so pretty, and an amazing resonant tone with sustain for days. The sound is substantially different from the soprano/concert scale that it almost feels like a different instrument, but all the chord shapes fit, (if in a different key), and while I don't play guitar, I have noodled around, and this sound is different from that too.
Viva la baritone revolución!
It's my first bari. I learned on a soprano, and graduated myself to concert at the beginning of last year, which is definitely more comfortable to play. When I tried a tenor, I felt it was too much of a compromise in sound, and I had gotten so used to concert and soprano scale that it just felt weird to me. So I was scared of the baritone, until the 2012 year of the baritone thread that either Mike at Mainland or Mike at Uke Republic started, and it got me to thinking about a deeper, mellower, fuller sound, and then Eugene Ukulele got two (!), and raved, and so then, I was on a mission.
I knew I'd have to "trade in" so I sold my Mainland red cedar soprano, which was definitely my most beautiful uke, and thought I'd just get its bigger cousin, and man am I glad I did. So, so pretty, and an amazing resonant tone with sustain for days. The sound is substantially different from the soprano/concert scale that it almost feels like a different instrument, but all the chord shapes fit, (if in a different key), and while I don't play guitar, I have noodled around, and this sound is different from that too.
Viva la baritone revolución!